Posted on 09/24/2002 10:55:12 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Terrorists storm temple in Gandhinagar Agencies New Delhi, September 24
Three suspected terrorists have entered a temple in Gujarat's capital Gandhinagar and resorted to indiscriminate firing, killing at least 25 and injuring several others.
The terrorists entered the Akshardham temple belonging to the Swaminarayan sect around 1700 hours and fired at devotees.
"Seven men and women and four children are dead. Twenty-five people are injured and the injured are being taken out of the temple to Gandhinagar hospital," Inspector R B Rawal in the Gujarat state intelligence room told Reuters.
"There were over 50 people inside the temple when three gunmen opened fire inside the temple," Gujarat Home Secretary K Nitya Nandam told AFP.
State police control room spokesman G L Singhal had said earlier that four people had been killed in the shooting.
A television news channel put the toll at 6 dead and 40 injured.
According to an eyewitness, the three terrorists were wearing Army uniform and were armed with AK 47 rifles and sten guns.
A local police official said the terrorists had thrown a bomb at the temple, which is on fire.
According to initial reports, police forces have surrounded the temple and efforts are being made to evict people inside the temple. There is utter chaos in and around the temple.
A gun battle is reportedly on between the security forces and the terrorists. Commondos have reached the temple complex and the Army has also been called to deal with the situation.
The temple is close to the residence of the Gujarat Governor and Chief Minister and other VVIPs. The Gujarat State Assembly and Secretariat are within two kilometers of the temple complex.
The Gujarat government had received intelligence reports on the possibility of such an incident happening. Several VVIps visit the large temple complex daily.
Doctors in Ahmedabad have been told to report to hospitals.
D@mn.
Prayers for the families of those 44 innocent people, and for the recovery of the wounded. And for justice against the murderists.
The Sikhs live in Punjab.
Amritsar is in the Punjab.
Gandhinagar is in Gujurat.
Get a map and learn some facts
before you waste space with your posts.
"In 1997 came the chilling Luxor, Egypt massacre, the bloody climax of a campaign to kill foreign visitors and destroy Egypt's tourist industry. A band of Islamist terrorists seized control of the Temple of Hatshepsut in Upper Egypt's Valley of the Queens, and then methodically hunted down 58 mainly European tourists, including women and children."
I still remember those chilling photos, I remember the unfortunate Japanese honeymooners who were in the tourist groups who were also on the ground hugging each other with their brains splattered.
By militant Islamist Terrorists. The scourge of the civilized world.
There's a lot of good to be said for hierarchies, but for healthy hierarchies. There is nothing worse than a dysfunctional rigid hierarchy. Holiness only comes through sacrifice.
He did speak at a mosque on September 24, in an attempt to prevent vigilante violence against innocent people. Unlike the rabid "nuke them all" crowd, some of us are aware that there ARE innocent, peaceful Muslims out there. Few, true, but there is no reason to murder THEM.
Kinda sucks to know that Al Queda may already have two allies with the nuke...Iraq and Pak extremists.
'splain, please?
What a very charming idea you have of the United States. In order to prevent his support base from breaking out in mass lynchings against moslems--and whomever else should be unlucky enough to fall in their path--The President proclaims the peace of islam to the Nation.
Poor Mr. Bush. Imagine having to preside over such an embarassing lot of greasy-haired, savage, red-necks. It's like a scene out of "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Strangely, my people have been living here, in the Homeland, for quite a while and they haven't lynched anybody yet. Not even some who richly deserved it....
Unfortunately, Belle is not actually TELLING the truth...just folding, spindling and mutilating it in an attempt to further a political agenda rather than concern for the situation, sympathy for the dead or outrage at the terrorist pigs who are the guilty party.
Instead, Belle's first post was a political slam against a foreign (to India) president who had nothing to do with this mass murder....as have most of Belle's subsequent posts, with occasional tangents into asthetics and the caste system.
The colonist came to escape the oppression of a king, and fighting this type of communism, a dictorial king, has kept America free.
Shouldn't you be playing at dirtyunderwear.com with your own socialist believing members ?
Most of the nonsense about "equality" stems from vulgar protestant distortions of christian belief.
Christian believe is equality through equal labor, not freebies to the lazy. Give a man a fish, he eats for a day and comes back for freebies for the rest of his life (Democrat dependancy and poverty breading logic). Teach a man to fish, he becomes self accountable and no man becomes a slave to another. That's what Christianity is. Give them a helping hand, then walk away. You've done what the Lord requires of you.
Liberalism, on the otherhand is not a lifestyle choice, it's a deathstyle choice. There's no where to go but further down into the deepest parts of hell. The addiction to self pleasure and self centerdness has no escape. The whole world evolves around the concept of "please me." No other life matters. If that demand for self pleasure is not delivered, they cry out for death.
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